An unforgettable experience last night: a haunting piece of theatre. Ruth and I went to see the one man show Other People, written by and starring Daniel Brooks. There’s an extraordinary backstory to this event:

I’ll take a day like today – cold with bright hot sun – over mild but grey and wet, any time. I’m a plant. I needs me some sun. So much going on. Yes, I

By the way, if you’d like me to send you the PDF of “Correspondence,” please email me. Beth@bethkaplan.ca. This is one of my most important stories.  A gloomy wet day but mild. All is good

A huge treat yesterday: the latest Queen’s Quarterly arrived, with my article “Correspondence.” It’s a gorgeous magazine on silky paper, beautifully laid out and illustrated, with stellar writing. Very proud to be included. They sent

Isabel just wrote, No blog for a few days, are you all right? Not much to say, I wrote back. But that’s never stopped me before. Surreal days, we Canadians living our tranquil lives while

What a day – 17 degrees! We all poured out into the sun. It’ll get cold again, but we felt the dawn of hope. I actually did some pruning of the winter kill and saw

A profoundly moving moment in Canadian history: Zelensky addresses our parliament, followed by a very long unanimous bipartisan standing ovation and moving speeches from every party leader, even the leader of the Senate, whoever he

Thanks to those of you who’ve expressed concern. I’m better today than yesterday, which was better than Friday. No idea what this is; something’s wrong, but it’s not causing pain like it did. I hope

A note to my faithful readers and friends: if this blog disappears for a bit, it may be because a former health crisis has returned. For the last few days, I’ve had pain in my

A quick word to say – no, the essay book manuscript is NOT done. And I’d sent it out, too, before re-reading and realizing there was a big problem. I had to write and say